Events

Grand Opening of the new Lifeshine Respite Center

November 11 2013

Child Life Society and supporters from across the continent will join to celebrate the grand opening, ribbon cutting and mezuzah affixing of its new state-of-the-art Lifeshine Respite home, which offers immense relief to cystic fibrosis patients and their families. The "Weissman House" has been dedicated by Mr. Steven Weissman, the primary sponsor of the home.

Rabbi Elie Abadie of the Edmund J. Safra Synagogue in Manhattan will be the special guest speaker, and Rabbi Yaakov Zucker, Rabbi of the Keys and Key West, will serve as Master of Ceremonies. Key West Mayor Craig Cates will deliver opening remarks; City Commissioner Billy Wardlow will join as well. Rabbi Chaim A. Wolkenfeld, Director of Child Life Society, will express his appreciation of the myriad people who helped bring the new homo to fruition. "When we began this program in 2007, it was difficult to imagine how far we´ve come," he says.